People who make decisions based on emotion and justify those decisions with logic afterwards are poor decision makers.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
When Howard Gardener proposed the theory of multiple intelligence, it became evident that emotional quotient was equally, if not more, important than intelligence quotient.
Citing this to bolster my stand, I would like to disagree with the statement that people who made decision based on emotions, and justify those decisions with logic afterwards, are poor decision makers.
To illustrate this point, let us consider an example from the life of Nobel Laureate and Saint, Mother Teresa of Kolkata. Mother Teresa was a part of a congregation in India that worked for the uplift of destitutes in slum areas. However, their "help" to such people was in limited capacity whereas Mother Teresa wanted to do more, especially for leprosy patients. Had Mother Teresa not heard the call of her emotions and took the decision to start a different organisation, Missionaries of Charity and its good works would be a distant dream even today. Her emotions overwhelmed her logical thinking that she should not stray away from her convent, which was initially opposed to her decision.
Furthermore, advocating for this viewpoint, one would like to state that people are human beings and not robots. Human have emotions, and it is but natural that emotions will be a part of the decisions we make. After all, we are a product of the decisions we make and we need to live with its consequences. In such a situation, one is better off in making decisions based on one's personal choices, likes and dislikes, rather than a logic one does not agree to. In support of this point, a pertinent example is that of marriages in India. In the country, there is still a concept of "arranged marriage" where parents choose the partners of their children, based on some logical factors like age, social and educational class and income etc. However, this is one aspect of life where emotion trumps all logic, and one is likely to be happy with a partner chosen with love rather than logic.
Today, when the world is getting increasingly competitive, it has become of prime importance that we let our emotions take control of us in all important aspects of our lives. Otherwise how will we differentiate between ourselves and robots? Even if we consider professional decisions, if we read the biographies of successful businessmen, we will know that a number of decisions that brought them where they are, came from the heart and not the head. For instance, who can say that Steve Jobs' decision to drop out from college and start Apple was wrong, even though all logic suggests that one should finish a degree and definitely not drop out midway. The world is aplenty with such sucess stories.
In defence of this statement, granted that there are times when logic has to be employed while making decisions. It is said that they head knows what is better for us than our hearts. However, it is our hearts and all that comes with it, that distinguishes us from others.
In conclusion, one would like to reiterate the viewpoint, that emotions are not a hindrance in decision making and neither is an emotional thinker a poor decision maker. So long as the decision is a right one for us, and we are ready to live with the consequences, it is our decision, and we have every right to select how emotional we want to be about it.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, furthermore, however, if, so, still, whereas, while, after all, as to, for instance, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 31.0 19.5258426966 159% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 26.0 11.3162921348 230% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 70.0 33.0505617978 212% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 75.0 58.6224719101 128% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2756.0 2235.4752809 123% => OK
No of words: 569.0 442.535393258 129% => OK
Chars per words: 4.84358523726 5.05705443957 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.88402711743 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72279804419 2.79657885939 97% => OK
Unique words: 280.0 215.323595506 130% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.492091388401 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 871.2 704.065955056 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 6.24550561798 208% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.1828892728 60.3974514979 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.833333333 118.986275619 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.7083333333 23.4991977007 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.29166666667 5.21951772744 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 7.0 4.97078651685 141% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.2730888411 0.243740707755 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0776774656165 0.0831039109588 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0871722167492 0.0758088955206 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.152344363744 0.150359130593 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.121666073317 0.0667264976115 182% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 14.1392134831 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.8420337079 116% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.09 12.1639044944 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.5 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 134.0 100.480337079 133% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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